Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nastassja Kinski

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

Miranda Lambert

My family is awesome.

Mignon McLaughlin

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

Mignon McLaughlin

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Matt Taibbi

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

Matthew McConaughey

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Marilynne Robinson

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

Maria Montessori

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Plautus

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

Plato

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Paula Abdul

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

Phil McGraw

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

LeBron James

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

LeBron James

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

Peter De Vries

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Penelope Leach

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

Penelope Leach

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Marlo Thomas

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

Marie Antoinette

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

Maria Sharapova

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

Maureen O'Hara

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Maya Angelou

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

Maya Angelou

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

Merle Haggard

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

Masiela Lusha

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

Mason Cooley

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Mason Cooley

The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.

Mason Cooley

Family romances are the only ones that never turn out happily.

Mary Karr

It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.

Mary Karr

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Martin Short

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

Martina McBride

In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

Marie Curie

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.